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• Facilitate East-West capability
  • Scale/Load balance across EXF instances
  • EXF Failover
  • Cluster of EXF node management
• Facilitate North-South capability
  • Gateway (EXF) Device Service
  • Gateway (EXF) to Gateway (EXF) export
• Plug into system management systems (Pulse, System Center, AirWatch, etc.)
• Reference implementation device services for common protocols BACnet, Modbus, etc.
• Local console user interfaces
• Export Services SDK-like facility to allow for
  • Additional transformations
  • Additional filtering
  • Alternate encryption and compress routines
  • Address other protocol endpoints (AMPQ, DDS, ...)
  • Provide cloud connectors (Azure, Watson, SAP Hana, etc.)
• Device Service and Device Service SDK improvements
  • Refactor/simplify the SDK
  • provide more code examples for other protocols (Zigbee, Zwave, ...)
  • Standards (OPC-UA, OCF, etc.)
  • Connectivity to other systems (Kura, IoTivity, ...)
  • Alternate language support (C/C++, Python, Go,...)

Quality Assurance Procedures

• More and improved microservice unit tests
• Checkin/code review procedures
• test plans/test cases
• integration tests (service to service)
• performance testing
• scalability testing
• soak testing
• platform/OS testing
• release management schedule and procedures
• automated build, test and release process as part of standard DevOps

Additional Microservice/Subsystem Required

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